The data workshop was an outcome of the collaboration between the Academy of Finland funded MULTICS project (PI Helena Karasti) and the INAR RI Ecosystems consortium (PI Jaana Bäck). INAR RI includes the operators of Finnish LTER sites and LTSER platforms among other national ecosystems research partners.

The workshop was organized to provide members and other stakeholders of the INAR RI Ecosystems consortium with an introduction to data management in the ecological and related sciences. The notion of local data management was used as a starting point to discuss data management activities taking place at or close to the origins of data, and to envision how data was coordinated within and across boundaries of a variety of related contexts, including LTER-Europe and eLTER RI.